This is a list of Peruvian steam frigates of the period 1852-1881:

! |Ship name
! |Ship type
! |Origin
! |Commissioned
! |Guns
! |Fate
|-
| Amazonas
| screw frigate

Screw frigate

Steam frigates and the smaller steam corvettes were steam-powered warships.The first vessel that can be considered a steam frigate was the Demologos which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy....

|
| 1852
| 34
| Ship runs aground and lost in Punta Quilque (Chile), 1866
|-
| Apurímac
| screw frigate

Screw frigate

Steam frigates and the smaller steam corvettes were steam-powered warships.The first vessel that can be considered a steam frigate was the Demologos which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy....

|
| 1855
| 36
| Ship scuttled in the Callao harbour to prevent capture, 1881
|-
| Independencia

Peruvian ironclad Independencia

Independencia was an broadside ironclad built in England for the Peruvian Navy during the mid-1860s. Independencia and Huáscar where the two main ships of the Peruvian Navy at the start of the War of the Pacific with Chile. Independencia ran aground while pursuing Covadonga during the naval battle...

| broadside ironclad frigate
|
| 1866
| 28
| Ship collide with a submerged rock and sank during the chase of the schooner Covadonga near Iquique (Perú, now Chile), 1879
|-